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On the day after Christmas, more than 400 teenagers looted and trashed a Brooklyn mall while also engaging in the violent "knockout" game. According to the New York Post, the "wild flash mob" of "crazed teens" stole and smashed merchandise and beat up security guards at Kings Plaza Shopping Center between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The teens reportedly used social media to "plan the mass looting" and may have thought the rapper Fabulous would be performing at the mall.

Hundreds of teenagers stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall in a wild flash mob that forced the shopping center to close its doors during day-after Christmas sales, sources said on Friday. More than 400 crazed teens grabbed and smashed jars of candy, stole cheap items such as baby balloons and beat up security guards at Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., merchants said. A violent game of “Knockout” also broke out on the upper level of the mall — and one teen may have been carrying a gun, sources said.

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